branch
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- Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
[edit] Etymology
From Old French branche.
[edit] Noun
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branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing
- Something that divides like the branch of a tree
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but smaller than a ward.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research
- (nautical) The certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters
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[edit] Translations
woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing
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something that divides like the branch of a tree
office of an organization with several locations
an area in business or of knowledge, research
certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters
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[edit] Verb
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to branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
[edit] Translations
to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree
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to produce branches
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to jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement
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